Almost a year to the day, it was a pleasure to return to the Houghton Library at Harvard University to give the Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture entitled ‘Printing, Parchment, […]

One of the highlights of the last week in New York has been the opportunity to renew acquaintance with Spencer’s parchment copy of the 1502 Aldine editio princeps of Dante’s […]

Thanks to Maria Fredericks and colleagues at the Thaw Conservation Centre, and in conjunction with printed book curator John McQuillen, we spent the best part of a day collecting data […]

It is great to be back on the East coast for what seems to be becoming an annual Easter trip. We first visited the Morgan in April 2014 on the […]

We were delighted to be able to contribute a number of Aldines from the Rylands collection to the recently opened  exhibition ‘Aldo Manuzio: il rinascimento di Venezia’ hosted at the […]

In November the first fruits of the Books and Beasts collective appeared in print in an article published in the leading scientific journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of […]

As we look back at all the events which took place over the 500th Aldus anniversary year, probably the most enjoyable and specifically Mancunian experience, which drew on all the […]